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Overview

The Python Cookbook is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for Python programmers, written by Python programmers. Over the past year, members of the Python community have contributed material to an online repository of Python recipes hosted by ActiveState. This book contains the best of those recipes, accompanied by overviews and background material by key Python figures.

The recipes in the Python Cookbook range from simple tasks, such as working with dictionaries and list comprehensions, to entire modules that demonstrate templating systems and network monitoring. This book contains over 200 recipes on the following topics:

Searching and sorting
Manipulating text
Working with files and the filesystem
Object-oriented programming
Dealing with threads and processes
System administration
Interacting with databases
Creating user interfaces
Network and web programming
Processing XML
Distributed programming
Debugging and testing
Extending Python

This book is a treasure trove of useful code for all Python programmers, from novices to advanced practitioners, with contributions from such Python luminaries as Guido Van Rossum, David Ascher, Tim Peters, Paul Prescod, Mark Hammond, and Alex Martelli, as well as over 100 other Python programmers. The recipes highlight Python best practices and can be used directly in day-to-day programming tasks, as a source of ideas, or as a way to learn more about Python.

The recipes in the Python Cookbook were edited by David Ascher, who is on the board of the Python Software Foundation and is the co-author of Learning Python, and Alex Martelli, who is known for his numerous and exhaustive postings on the Python mailing list. The book contains a foreword by Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780596007973
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2005
Edition description: Second Edition
Edition number: 2
Pages: 846
Sales rank: 300,147
Product dimensions: 7.04 (w) x 9.18 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Alex Martelli spent 8 years with IBM Research, winning three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards. He then spent 13 as a Senior Software Consultant at think3 inc, developing libraries, network protocols, GUI engines, event frameworks, and web access frontends. He has also taught programming languages, development methods, and numerical computing at Ferrara University and other venues. He's a C++ MVP for Brainbench, and a member of the Python Software Foundation. He currently works for AB Strakt, a Python-centered software house in G teborg, Sweden, mostly by telecommuting from his home in Bologna, Italy. Alex's proudest achievement is the articles that appeared in Bridge World (January/February 2000), which were hailed as giant steps towards solving issues that had haunted contract bridge theoreticians for decades.

David Ascher is the lead for Python projects at ActiveState, including Komodo, ActiveState's integrated development environment written mostly in Python. David has taught courses about Python to corporations, in universities, and at conferences. He also organized the Python track at the 1999 and 2000 O'Reilly Open Source Conventions, and was the program chair for the 10th International Python Conference. In addition, he co-wrote Learning Python (both editions) and serves as a director of the Python Software Foundation. David holds a B.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in cognitive science, both from Brown University.

1	Text	1
2	Files	58
3	Time and money	110
4	Python shortcuts	146
5	Searching and sorting	190
6	Object-oriented programming	229
7	Persistence and databases	288
8	Debugging and testing	332
9	Processes, threads, and synchronization	355
10	System administration	391
11	User interfaces	422
12	Processing XML	463
13	Network programming	485
14	Web programming	526
15	Distributed programming	558
16	Programs about programs	584
17	Extending and embedding	616
18	Algorithms	643
19	Iterators and generators	689
20	Descriptors, decorators, and metaclasses	740

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Computer_Science_House

Posted February 5, 2009

Good Cookbook

I started reading through the Python Cookbook as a beginner with very little experience in Python but fluent in several other languages ranging from Object Oriented to Functional languages. I found the book was very good to learn from by example. I would recommend it to anyone who has had programming experience before and is just starting out on Python to quickly grasp new areas of the language. I would also recommend this to intermediate Python programmers as a resource for being able to quickly identify common problems and elegant solutions to them. I found the book very easy to understand, despite my lack of prior exposure to the language and I felt like it was a very good learning experience. I'm looking forward to using Python more for my day to day tasks now that I have been introduced to many examples of how powerful a language it can really be.
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Anonymous

Posted October 21, 2002

A must-have for Pythonistas!

This book is more like _Effective_C++_ than a cookbook. Each item is more than a code snippet to solve a specific problem, though said snippets abound. The author of each short bit goes into illuminating depth about their chosen topic. I've been programming in Python since 1.3 and I learned several new things in the first several pages! I've not yet finished it, but I did go ahead and read a few "recipies" from each chapter before posting this review. As an added bonus, each chapter is introduced by a Python luminary. Bottom line: This book will sit on my desk, not on my shelf.
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